Corrinne Burns: The voices of women are all too often missing when the scientific community presents itself to the public. Last week at the British Science Association conference, delegates discussed how to change that

Jon Butterworth: If we want to continue to probe the smallest constituents of nature and understand how they interact, we have to think big and plan for the long term. Possibilities include machines that would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider, and neutrino beams crossing half a continent

Learning to code is not the problem, the
principles this new scheme embodies might be. As with any science and technology education project, we must recognise the politics so we might steer them wisely.

Firms like Shell can and should collaborate with taxpayer-funded researchers. But no single organisation should be granted privileged access to the processes by which priorities for public research funding are set, argues Kieron Flanagan

Tona Anzures: In an earlier post, Daniel Zeichner argued that we should regard scientists as more valuable than footballers for the UK economy. Here, Tona Anzures investigates more connections. He argues that science and football are both global games.